Comicon 2024 Gift Guide Special Edition — ‘Operation: Monster Force’ Files Starts Today
by Tony Thornley
New intellectual property in toys are becoming less and less common. Walk through any big box retailer and you’ll see the same characters and brands that dominated toy shelves twenty years ago. Big Bad Workshop and Fresh Monkey Fiction are aiming to change that.
All this week, the Comicon.com team will be reviewing Operation: Monster Force from Big Bad Workshop and Fresh Monkey Fiction. The team received samples of some of the line’s best figures, and have taken the past week with them in hand, posing, customizing and generally enjoying them.
The line’s official storyline comes from the figures’ listing on Big Bad Toy Store:
The Forgotten King has returned. Once a sorcerer pharaoh whose reign was so vile his name was erased from Egyptian history, the Forgotten King pursues a sinister agenda, gathering mystical artifacts from around the world for some unknown purpose. Every soldier sent to stop him is killed and re-animated into an undead zombie that is under the Forgotten King’s command.
Worried the Forgotten King’s reign of terror will not be able to be stopped, the military enlists the help of monster hunter Declan Van Helsing. Seeing no other option, Declan goes against the Van Helsing family’s wishes and opens Tomb 13, freeing the world’s most powerful vampire…Count Dracula. His rationale – it may take a monster to bring down a monster.
And so, Operation: Monster Force is formed! Under Dracula’s direction, a unique vampire strike unit is created called “Delta Red,” whose undead condition makes them immune to the Forgotten King’s powers.
It’s a race against time for Dracula and Van Helsing to discover the Forgotten King’s hidden lair and destroy him before his mysterious plan reaches completion.
The Comicon team had the chance to look at Dracula, the Forgotten King, and two of the troop builders in the line.
Check out Operation: Monster Force on Big Bad Toy Store, as well as all the other offerings there!
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